Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hello, Stanley," said a petulant woman's voice. ''Aren't you going to keep our date...
...woman's story came out. A handsome gentleman in a fine automobile had picked her up at 110th Street the day before, wined her, dined her, told her that he was City Editor Stanley Walker of the Herald Tribune. He had made an appointment with her for the following day, promised to show her the Herald Tribune's plant, go to dinner, the theatre, a night club. He had failed to appear...
Most metropolitan newspapermen know and like three Walkers: Jimmie, Johnny and Stanley. Jimmie is the wisecracking Mayor. Johnny is a kind of Scotch whiskey. Stanley is currently the most famed, most colorful city editor in town. Around him grows a fine garden of anecdote...
...works his staff hard, himself harder. A day with Stanley Walker might begin at 10 a. m. and last (if he is taking both the day and night desks) until midnight. It might include lunch at the Algonquin or a bite with some of his staff in Blake's, the Herald Tribune saloon. Back at his desk, smoking innumerable cigars, he would see the first edition onto the presses, return to Blake's, catch a midnight train out to Great Neck, L. I. where he lives. On the train he reads one of the early editions so he can telephone...
...hitherto untold chapter of U. S. shipping history; 2) an apparent shift of advantage between the dickerers, an advantage for President Philip Albright Small Franklin of Roosevelt- International Mercantile Marine Co. over President Paul Wadsworth Chapman of U. S. Lines and his new backers from the Pacific Coast, Robert Stanley Dollar and Kenneth Thomas Dawson...